EWUG 2024: Full Schedule

Take a self-paced lesson at the Hands-On Learning Lab. The Hands-On Learning Lab is a dedicated space to take free lessons on a variety of GIS and ArcGIS topics. Each selfpaced lesson takes about one hour to complete and includes conceptual information and step-by-step software exercises. We provide laptops and the ArcGIS software needed to complete each lesson. Esri instructors are available to assist with lesson selection and answer any questions you may have.

LESSON LIST - Getting started with ArcGIS

• Exploring ArcGIS
• Getting Started with ArcGIS Online
• Getting Started with ArcGIS Pro
• Getting Started with GIS

Explore a focused topic

• Adding Location-Based Data to a Map
• Analysis in ArcGIS Online
• Automating Workflows Using Python
• Creating Web Apps Using ArcGIS Experience Builder
• Data Exploration and Visualization in ArcGIS Online
• Data Pipelines in ArcGIS Online
• Exploratory Image Analysis in ArcGIS Pro
• Discovering Patterns Using ArcGIS Insights
• Exploring ArcGIS Field Maps
• Getting Started with Arcade
• Getting Started with ArcGIS Business Analyst
• Getting Started with ArcGIS Notebooks
• Getting Started with ArcGIS Survey123
• Getting Started with ModelBuilder
• Integrating CAD and BIM Data with ArcGIS
• Managing Parcels and Land Records Using the Parcel Fabric
• Mapping Clusters with ArcGIS Pro
• Mapping in ArcGIS Online
• Monitoring Activity Using ArcGIS Dashboards
• Performing Deep Learning in ArcGIS Online
• Telling Stories with ArcGIS StoryMaps

Speakers

esri

James Misfeldt

HOLL lesson list 2024 pdf

Thursday November 7, 2024 12:00pm - 5:00pm CST
Legends Club Rooms D (Starr)

Hands On Learning Lab

1:00pm CST

Exploring New User Types for ArcGIS

Thursday November 7, 2024 1:00pm - 1:45pm CST

Legends Club Rooms A (Blood)

Jason Fetch, Senior Account Manager, Esri
Frank Baxter, Regional Manager – Minneapolis, Esri

ArcGIS user types provide secure, role-based access to ArcGIS capabilities from anywhere on any device. At each level, user types increase access to ArcGIS capabilities, apps, and services. This helps to simplify license administration and allows Organizations to scale as the needs of their users grow. This session on the newly updated ArcGIS User Type aims to provide an overview of the enhanced features and functionalities that come with the latest iteration.

Speakers

Jason Fetch

Senior Account Manager, Esri

Frank Baxter

Regional Manager, Esri

esri

Thursday November 7, 2024 1:00pm - 1:45pm CST
Legends Club Rooms A (Blood)

ArcGIS Online and Enterprise, User Types

1:00pm CST

GeoLounge and UC sessions repeat

Thursday November 7, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST

Legend Club Room C (Hornung)

GeoLounge and UC sessions repeat

Thursday November 7, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST
Legend Club Room C (Hornung)

GeoLounge

1:30pm CST

ArcGIS Enterprise Administration - Making effective use of the ESRI tools

Thursday November 7, 2024 1:30pm - 2:00pm CST

Legends Club Rooms B (Davis)

ESRI provides many tools to help administer your ArcGIS Enterprise. This session will walk you through some of the supported and “un-supported” tools available to help you make informed decisions to administer your ArcGIS Enterprise environment.

1.WebGISDr – Web GIS Disaster Recovery - back up and restore ArcGIS Enterprise deployments, ensuring data and configuration settings can be recovered in the event of a system failure or disaster.
2. System Log Parser tool analyzes ArcGIS Server log files to help diagnose performance issues, errors, and usage patterns by providing detailed reports.
3. EGDB - Health Check tool assesses the overall health and performance of an enterprise geodatabase, identifying potential issues related to storage, performance, and configuration.
4. DataStore tools help manage the ArcGIS Data Store, allowing administrators to configure, back up, restore, and validate the data store for optimal performance and reliability in an Enterprise deployment.

Speakers

Steve Tomlins

Technician, City of Janesville, WI

Thursday November 7, 2024 1:30pm - 2:00pm CST
Legends Club Rooms B (Davis)

ArcGIS Online and Enterprise

1:45pm CST

Using ArcGIS to Manage Special Events

Thursday November 7, 2024 1:45pm - 2:30pm CST

Legends Club Rooms A (Blood)

Ryan Lindeman, Solution Engineer – Public Safety Team, Esri

Does your organization manage and host events throughout the year? Have you thought about ways to use your GIS system to streamline the planning and management of those events? This session will cover the capabilities of the new Special Event Operations ArcGIS Solution to manage and plan events, create event maps, monitor event day operations and staff, and share information with attendees and the public

Speakers

Ryan Lindeman

Solution Engineer, Esri

esri

Thursday November 7, 2024 1:45pm - 2:30pm CST
Legends Club Rooms A (Blood)

ArcGIS Solutions, Pubic Safety & Emergency Management

2:00pm CST

Interpolating Data for Neighborhood Estimates of Socioeconomic Characteristics

Thursday November 7, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST

Legends Club Rooms B (Davis)

Prior studies of spatial crime patterns often turn to the U.S. Census administrative units as proxies for neighborhoods. We know less about the feasibility of using areal interpolation methods to help estimate neighborhood-level regression models. We used ArcGIS Pro spatial interpolation methods to create neighborhood estimates of socioeconomic characteristics based on the Census data. Then, we examined the relationship between neighborhood characteristics, including racial heterogeneity, residential mobility, immigration, and concentrated disadvantage, and crime at several levels of analysis. We demonstrated that the spatial interpolation methods can offer reliable and accurate estimates of neighborhood measures when socioeconomic data are only available at the Census block group and tract levels. This study has important implications for social and systems science research with focus on area characteristics to predict spatially distributed outcomes, including crime.

Speakers

Aleksandra Snowden

Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Marquette University

Associate Professor, Director of Master's in Criminal Justice Data Analytics

Thursday November 7, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
Legends Club Rooms B (Davis)

GeoBIM

2:30pm CST

ArcGIS Field Maps: What's New and the Road Ahead

Thursday November 7, 2024 2:30pm - 3:15pm CST

Legends Club Rooms A (Blood)

Jarod Fox, Solution Engineer, Esri

Field Maps empowers mobile workers with access to up-to-date information, situational awareness, and tools to efficiently and accurately capture and share data from the field, keeping the field and office in sync. For those in the office preparing field workflows, Field Maps provides tools to customize the mobile experience and ensure organizational needs are met. This presentation highlights the latest enhancements and shares what's coming next in Field Maps.

Speakers

Jarod Fox

Solution Engineer, Esri

esri

Thursday November 7, 2024 2:30pm - 3:15pm CST
Legends Club Rooms A (Blood)

ArcGIS Field Maps

3:00pm CST

Networking Break (15-minute)

Thursday November 7, 2024 3:00pm - 3:15pm CST

Legends Pre-Function Area

Networking Break (15-minute)

Thursday November 7, 2024 3:00pm - 3:15pm CST
Legends Pre-Function Area

Break

3:15pm CST

Create your own Google Street view for under $500*

Thursday November 7, 2024 3:15pm - 3:45pm CST

Legends Club Rooms B (Davis)

Several departments need updated Street/Structure photos to include in their workflows. Since each department has a different need taking individual photos is not efficient or cost effective. Ideally staff would like to use Google Street View but the outdated photos, licensing, and unpredictable updates make it not ideal. So we looked at creating our own over the past year using ESRI software we already have and cameras that cost just a few hundred dollars. This allows us to get the images we need, control the updates, have full control over the licensing, and can efficiently gather and process the images over a few days. This should be a game changer for City of Wauwatosa and we want it to be a game changer in your community too!

Speakers

Paul Vepraskas

Brad Pitt's Stunt Double, City of Wauwatosa

Thursday November 7, 2024 3:15pm - 3:45pm CST
Legends Club Rooms B (Davis)

ArcGIS Pro

3:15pm CST

Mapping the Path to Success: Defining Your Geospatial Strategy

Thursday November 7, 2024 3:15pm - 4:00pm CST

Legends Club Rooms A (Blood)

Jason Fetch, Senior Account Manager, Esri

A Geospatial Strategy is a business-oriented plan that defines how your organization will use GIS technology to achieve its goals and support all of your users. This session will provide concepts to help guide organizations through the process of understanding their organizations, planning and developing a Strategy, and implementing it through both organizational and technological changes. Learn some of our best practices and get an inside track to starting this process at your own organization.

Speakers

esri

Jason Fetch

Senior Account Manager, Esri

Thursday November 7, 2024 3:15pm - 4:00pm CST
Legends Club Rooms A (Blood)

Geospatial Strategy

3:45pm CST

A GIS Professional’s Guide to Generative AI

Thursday November 7, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm CST

Legend Club Room C (Hornung)

Generative AI is becoming an invaluable tool for GIS professionals, streamlining everyday tasks such as project planning, workflow automation, and documentation. This presentation explores how AI can assist with automating workflows, drafting and reviewing scripts, answering geoprocessing questions, and refining written content. We will examine the strengths and limitations of AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and GovAI, while also sharing best practices for crafting effective prompts. Additionally, we will address key concerns such as data privacy and job security. By focusing on practical applications, this session will demonstrate how GIS professionals can leverage AI to boost productivity and efficiency in their daily work.

Speakers

Emily Sudar

LIS Analyst, Waukesha County

Thursday November 7, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm CST
Legend Club Room C (Hornung)

4:00pm CST

Monitoring Hazards & Assessing Impact with ArcGIS

Thursday November 7, 2024 4:00pm - 4:45pm CST

Legends Club Rooms A (Blood)

Ryan Lindeman, Solution Engineer – Public Safety Team, Esri

We live and work in a world that is constantly changing. How can your organization monitor this change as threats, hazards, and other events occur in your city, county, or state? Many organizations have watch centers, facility centers, or emergency operations centers that work to understand the impact to residents and places of interest like critical infrastructure. This session will cover Esri's new Watch Center ArcGIS Solution designed to monitor real-time all-hazard events in and around places of interest and how stakeholders can be notified to inform response. Watch Center incorporates ArcGIS Velocity analytics, ArcGIS Living Atlas feeds, and available partner incident detection feeds to enhance situational awareness.

Speakers

Ryan Lindeman

Solution Engineer, Esri

esri

Thursday November 7, 2024 4:00pm - 4:45pm CST
Legends Club Rooms A (Blood)

ArcGIS Solutions, Pubic Safety & Emergency Management

5:00pm CST

Vendor Reception

Thursday November 7, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm CST

North Balcony

Vendor Reception sponsored by Panda Consulting!

Exhibitors

Panda Consulting

esri

Seiler Geospatial

Ayres Associates Inc.

Ruekert Mielke

Thursday November 7, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm CST
North Balcony

Vendor Reception

9:00am CST

Esri Keynote: Leveraging Infrastructure - ArcGIS Solutions in Your Organization

Friday November 8, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am CST

Legends Club Rooms A-C (Blood/Davis/Hornung)

Esri Keynote: Leveraging Infrastructure - ArcGIS Solutions in Your Organization

Speakers

esri

Friday November 8, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am CST
Legends Club Rooms A-C (Blood/Davis/Hornung)

Keynote

9:00am CST

Hands On Learning Lab - HOLL (esri)

Friday November 8, 2024 9:00am - 3:00pm CST

Legends Club Rooms D (Starr)

Speakers

esri

James Misfeldt

HOLL lesson list 2024 pdf

Friday November 8, 2024 9:00am - 3:00pm CST
Legends Club Rooms D (Starr)

Hands On Learning Lab

10:00am CST

Networking Break (15-minute)

Friday November 8, 2024 10:00am - 10:15am CST

Legends Pre-Function Area

Networking Break (15-minute)

Friday November 8, 2024 10:00am - 10:15am CST
Legends Pre-Function Area

Break

10:00am CST

GeoLounge and UC sessions repeat

Friday November 8, 2024 10:00am - 3:00pm CST

Legend Club Room C (Hornung)

GeoLounge and UC sessions repeat

Friday November 8, 2024 10:00am - 3:00pm CST
Legend Club Room C (Hornung)

GeoLounge

10:15am CST

ArcGIS Solutions for Public Works

Friday November 8, 2024 10:15am - 11:00am CST

Legends Club Rooms A (Blood)

Mike Dagle, ArcGIS Solutions Lead, Esri

Find out how ArcGIS Solutions provide public works solutions that help state and local governments maintain right-of-way assets, coordinate capital investments, and engage the public in effective ways. Get a valuable overview of these available solutions and how they can be implemented.

Speakers

esri

Mike Dagle

ArcGIS Solutions Lead, Esri

Friday November 8, 2024 10:15am - 11:00am CST
Legends Club Rooms A (Blood)

ArcGIS Solutions, Public Works

10:15am CST

Artificial Intelligence and Parcels / The Search for Monuments

Friday November 8, 2024 10:15am - 11:00am CST

Legends Club Rooms B (Davis)

Much interest and speculation is being focused on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how it can help GIS Practitioners in their daily work. This presentation will discuss the possibilities and limitations related to parcel mapping, the generation of digital representation of land ownership, what you can expect, and how to best prepare for its impact.

Speakers

Frank Conkling

Owner, Panda Consulting

Frank owns Panda Consulting, a GIS Professional Services company that has existed since 1998. Frank is a recognized authority on GIS and Surveying and Mapping technology, including mapping various types of ownership interest in land. Frank has been involved in GIS and Parcel Mapping... Read More →

Friday November 8, 2024 10:15am - 11:00am CST
Legends Club Rooms B (Davis)

Parcel Fabric

11:00am CST

Experiencing Experience Builder

Friday November 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am CST

Legends Club Rooms B (Davis)

Experiencing Experience Builder? Yeah, we are too.

ESRI’s new Experience Builder continues to evolve, slowly finding its place where Web AppBuilder once stood. With great flexibility in configuring specialized, unique experiences, but losses in formatting, widget availability, and direct conversion, Experience Builder becomes as intimidating as it is awe-inspiring. Experience Builder is an experience… and you have to experience it to find out. Start here!

This session showcases the transition from preexisting Web AppBuilders to new solutions with remaining core functionalities. We’ll work through limitations, roadblocks, and general familiarity with the application at hand, discovering what works and what doesn’t.

We’ll create a collaborative place to learn, share, and experience what this application has in store— showcasing case studies, innovative applications, and practical tips and tricks.

Speakers

Grace Condit

GIS Analyst, Mead & Hunt

Friday November 8, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am CST
Legends Club Rooms B (Davis)

Experience Builder

11:00am CST

ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise: Architectural Patterns and Practices

Friday November 8, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST

Legends Club Rooms A (Blood)

Jarod Fox, Solution Engineer, Esri

It is a common misconception that an organization should use either ArcGIS Enterprise or ArcGIS Online, when in fact many organizations successfully use both. This session will cover how to choose the deployment that best fits your organizational needs. We will talk about the different forms of hybrid patterns that best take advantage of each environment’s unique strengths to build the best possible system and help you plan.

Speakers

Jarod Fox

Solution Engineer, Esri

esri

Friday November 8, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
Legends Club Rooms A (Blood)

ArcGIS Online and Enterprise

12:00pm CST

Lunch

Friday November 8, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm CST

North Balcony

Lunch

Friday November 8, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm CST
North Balcony

Lunch

1:00pm CST

Customize Your Hub Site with an ExB App Gallery

Friday November 8, 2024 1:00pm - 1:30pm CST

Legends Club Rooms B (Davis)

Learn some tips and tricks to enhance your Hub Site by integrating an app gallery using Experience Builder. ExB provides additional customization and functionality to showcase your apps. This presentation will compare Hub Site's Gallery Cards to the enhanced options in ExB's Card widget.

Speakers

Nathan Fazer

GIS Administrator, Sheboygan County

Nathan has been the GIS Administrator at Sheboygan County since November of 2021, managing the County's GIS infrastructure. Before moving to Sheboygan, Nathan spent 12 years in Michigan working for several RPO's and a County doing community planning and GIS. Nathan is also a certified... Read More →

Friday November 8, 2024 1:00pm - 1:30pm CST
Legends Club Rooms B (Davis)

Experience Builder, Hub

1:00pm CST

ArcGIS Data Pipelines: Streamline Data Integration

Friday November 8, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST

Legends Club Rooms A (Blood)

Elizabeth Greaves, Solution Engineer, Esri

ArcGIS Data Pipelines provides ArcGIS Online organizations the ability to integrate, clean, and prepare data in a streamlined and automated manner, without writing code. The intuitive, drag-and-drop user interface allows users to ingest data from external sources, apply data engineering tools to clean, integrate, and format the datasets, write the result out to a web feature layer, and use across the ArcGIS system.

Speakers

Elizabeth Greaves

Solution Engineer, Esri

esri

Friday November 8, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST
Legends Club Rooms A (Blood)

ArcGIS Online and Enterprise, Data Pipelines

1:30pm CST

DNR's Web Mapping Modernization Journey

Friday November 8, 2024 1:30pm - 2:00pm CST

Legends Club Rooms B (Davis)

Over the past ~2 years the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and undertaken the ambitious process of modernizing all of our GIS mapping applications from JavaScript 3.X based technology to modern JavaScript 4.X technology.

The project included both internal and external facing applications comprising approximately 50 Geocortex applications and more than 50 ArcGIS Online-based applications. The coordination, communication, and education in new technology presented both challenges and opportunities for the DNR's GIS developer and user community.

This presentation will give a high-level overview of DNR's Journey to modern web GIS.

Speakers

Jesse Papez

DNR AGOL/Portal Platform Administrator, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Friday November 8, 2024 1:30pm - 2:00pm CST
Legends Club Rooms B (Davis)

ArcGIS Online and Enterprise

2:00pm CST

Streamline Address Data Management Using Workflow Automation

Friday November 8, 2024 2:00pm - 2:45pm CST

Legends Club Rooms A (Blood)

Elizabeth Greaves, Solution Engineer, Esri

Managing addresses is an essential act of local government and is critical to providing efficient services to a community (911, property taxes, billing, delivery). Many communities face challenges maintaining high quality information and collaborating between departments and jurisdictions. This session will focus on using a set of capabilities to maintain address data and orchestrate workflows that connect the people, process, and technology in a seamless web experience.

Speakers

Elizabeth Greaves

Solution Engineer, Esri

esri

Friday November 8, 2024 2:00pm - 2:45pm CST
Legends Club Rooms A (Blood)

ArcGIS Workflow Manager, Address Data Management

2:00pm CST

ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3 Upgrade - A review of a succsessful ArcGIS Enterprise full stack machine migration

Friday November 8, 2024 2:00pm - 2:45pm CST

Legends Club Rooms B (Davis)

Thinking about migrating ArcGIS Enterprise from 10.x to 11.3. Join for a journey on lessons learned upgrading a full 10 machine enterprise portal/server stack with all server roles and data store types (including spatiotemporal).

Although this was done in AWS this migration was not done using cloud formation, so it would mirror an on premise workflow as well.

Tips/tricks, what worked, what didn't, and gotchas!

Speakers

Bill Cozzens

Head of BD & GIS Chapter - Digital Enabler, Enel North America, Inc.

Friday November 8, 2024 2:00pm - 2:45pm CST
Legends Club Rooms B (Davis)

Implementation